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The July Patch Tuesday Updates come with fixes for 136 CVEs

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Updated onFebruary 26, 2021

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Microsoft has just released the 7th round of Patch Tuesdayupdatesof the year 2020, and they are known as theJuly Patch Tuesday updates.

These are monthlyupdatesthat are released in order to improveWindows10from both a feature point of view, as well as from a security point of view.

Speaking of security, this has been yet another fruitful month for Microsoft, as they managed to successfully managed to identify and fix 136 CVEs.

Those of you that have a particular interest in security will have probably noticed that this year market a steady increase in the number of average CVEs identified.

Like in all of the previous months, over a hundred CVEs were identified for Microsoft products, which is a trend that has got many users concerned.

As an example,851 CVEs were fixe din the entirety of 2019, and if this trend keeps up, we will pass that number during the August updates.

Over 100 Microsoft CVEs got fixed along with the July updates

Over 100 Microsoft CVEs got fixed along with the July updates

This month brings fixes to a total of 136 CVEs, 13 of which are forAdobeproducts, while 123 are for Microsoft products

This month comes with fixes for 13 different Adobe CVEs, and they involve the Adobe Cold Fusion, Download Manager, Genuine Service, Media Encoder, and the Creative Cloud Desktop Application.

Of the 13 identified this month, 3 were rated as beingCritical.

Fortunately enough, none of the Adobe bugs fixed this month were listed as being publicly known, and they weren’t flagged as being under active attack.

The products with vulnerabilities identified this month includeMicrosoft Windows, Edge in IE Mode, ChakraCore, Internet Explorer (IE), Office and Office Services and Web Apps.

More so, vulnerabilities were found for Windows Defender, Skype for Business, Visual Studio, .NET Framework, OneDrive, Azure DevOp, and Open Source Software.

The 123 CVEs identified were rated as follows:

Which were some of the most severe CVEs?

These are just some of the most severe CVEs that were identified during the July 2020 Patch Tuesday Updates.

If you know of other CVEs that haven’t been covered here, better luck seeing them fix on August 11, because that’s when the next Patch Tuesday updates will become available.

Until then, if you have any other suggestions on how to improve our articles, leave us your feedback in the comments section below.

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Milan Stanojevic

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Milan has been enthusiastic about technology ever since his childhood days, and this led him to take interest in all PC-related technologies. He’s a PC enthusiast and he spends most of his time learning about computers and technology.

Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.

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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.